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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 10
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The queen of Sheba visits Solomon—His wealth and wisdom exceed those of all the kings of the earth.
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And</span> when the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 12: 42; Luke 11: 31.">queen</a> of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, she came to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">prove</a> him with hard questions.
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And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
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And Solomon told her all her <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB matters, concerns.">questions</a>: there was not <i>any</i> thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB food.">meat</a> of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/5b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB burnt offerings which he offered in the house of the LORD.">ascent</a> by which he went up unto the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; there was no more spirit in her.
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And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
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Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen <i>it:</i> and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
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Happy <i>are</i> thy men, happy <i>are</i> these thy servants, which <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 1: 5.">stand</a> continually before thee, <i>and</i> that hear thy wisdom.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 5: 7.">Blessed</a> be the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
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And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 8.">gold</a>, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 27.">navy</a> also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
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And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
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And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside <i>that</i> which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.  So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
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&#182; Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
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Beside <i>that he had</i> of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
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&#182; And king Solomon made two hundred <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB shields, or breastplates.">targets</a> <i>of</i> beaten gold: six hundred <i>shekels</i> of gold went to one target.
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And <i>he made</i> three hundred shields <i>of</i> beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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&#182; Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
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The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne <i>was</i> round behind: and <i>there were</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB arm-rests.">stays</a> on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
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And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
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&#182; And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels <i>were of</i> gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon <i>were of</i> pure gold; none <i>were of</i> silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
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For the king had at sea a navy of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 27: 12; Ezek. 38: 13.">Tharshish</a> with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 3: 13.">riches</a> and for wisdom.
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&#182; And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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&#182; And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 26.">thousand</a> and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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And the king <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/27a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB gave, put.">made</a> silver <i>to be</i> in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he <i>to be</i> as the sycomore trees that <i>are</i> in the vale, for abundance.
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&#182; And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/10/28a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB from Kue (Cilicia). The name of this country is mistakenly translated to be ‘linen yarn.’">linen</a> yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring <i>them</i> out by their means.
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